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The Good StudentRob Diaz-MarinoOct 21/97 The good student totes his backpack around, and as the teachers give him textbooks, the bag becomes heavier. "No, I don't have time for Art, or Band, or Drama, or anything like that. I have to do my academics. I have to do as many as I can." And so, the textbooks are loaded in nothing as light as a paint brush, or small prop, but the good student doesn't mind he can bear the weight. He appears unaffected by the mass... But then, when the student decides to break from his straight posture, leans back in laughter, or stretching, the bag yanks him down, and snaps him in two. |
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